Identifier: strangersillustr00phil (find matches)
Title: The stranger's illustrated pocket guide to Philadelphia, embracing a description of the principal objects of interest in and around the city, with directions how to reach them
Year: 1876 (1870s)
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Subjects: Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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es a plot of ground abouttwenty-five acres in extent. The principal building is of marble, threehundred and eighty feet in length, and has accommodations for threehundred persons. The grounds are beautifully laid out, and contain,besides the main building, commodious residences for the governor ofthe Asylum and for the surgeon. The Pine Street cars (Grays Ferrybranch) pass the Asylum. Pennsylvania Hospital, the oldest and most celebrated of theHospitals of the city, was founded in 1750. It is located on the squarebounded by Eighth, Ninth, Spruce, and Pine Streets, fronting uponPine, the principal entrance being on Eighth Street. The building hasan entire front of two hundred and seventy-eight feet, composed of themain building, sixty-four feet in width, which is connected by wards,eighty feet in extent, with the two wings each twenty-seven feet front.The grounds are tastefully laid out and contain a statue of WilliamPenn, presented to the institution by one of his descendants. TheE 6*
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HOTELS. 67 Hospital is reached from the northern section of the city by the SixthStreet cars and the Tenth Street cars, both of which pass, at SpruceStreet, within two squares, and also by the cars of the Union line, whichpass at Seventh and Spruce Streets, one square distant. From thewest the Spruce Street cars pass the grounds, and from the southernsection of the city the Eighth Street cars pass the entrance, and thecars of the Union line pass the grounds on Ninth Street. Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, popularly known as Kirkbrides Lunatic Asylum, is situated north of Market Street andwest of Forty-third. It consists of two departments, male and fe-male, capable of accommodating two hundred and fifty patients each.The main buildings of the two departments are similar in construction,three stories in height, with a front range of nearly four hundred andfifty feet, and stand on a plot of ground over one hundred acres in ex-tent. The Hospital is reached by the Market Street cars

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